by Bram Teitelman | Sep 10, 2015 | Close Calls, News
There are lots of hazards of being a touring band. Usually, they tend to be basic ones: battling hangovers, dealing with shady promoters, getting your van broken into when you play St. Louis, and so on. One wouldn’t expect one of those hazards to be escaping a...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 9, 2015 | Festivals, Food, Interviews, News
When the Food Truck & Rock Carnival makes its way to central New Jersey next weekend, it’ll be the first of its kind. Co-promoters John D’Esposito and Stan Levinstone got their start booking Old Bridge, NJ’s long-since-closed Birch Hill. Since...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 8, 2015 | Metal Memes, News
[youtube]https://youtu.be/AJFRvkNF6Wg[/youtube] While it’s been online for a few weeks, a friend’s Facebook feed made us aware of YouTube user Kiriakos Kazakos’ video in which his pug drums along to the intro of Metallica’s “Enter...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 7, 2015 | News, Touring, Updates
A lot of bands call it quits or play their “last” tour, only to go back on that when nostalgia drives up their asking price or they discover that they don’t want to throw in the towel. Black Sabbath, who announced their “THE END” tour...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 3, 2015 | Farewells, News, Touring
[youtube]https://youtu.be/FYCvRV5ME3w[/youtube] If heavy metal was born in 1970 with the release of the first Black Sabbath tour, a chapter of it is coming to an end in 2016, as Black Sabbath have announced their farewell tour. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler...